Johann: Atma thinks it's always the first sunday in June with is used to remind people at large to reflect on the goodness of ones father(s) and to use the day for honor and veneration. May all take this opputunity well and if still alive, of which is not for sure, still possible to personal approach, such is a blessing and not good if not used. Mudita

Johann: [continue] ...kāma-guṇa (sensual giving) , death, alive, increasing the cemeteries in the world. This is why just giving toward the virtuous, those with metta, bears fruits beyond the common, as it's not for further kāma-guṇa that they would use it for, but as base for lessons, for purificatio

Johann: If one would know or remembering the suffering behind pleasing form, sound, smell, taste, touch, one certain would no more desire after it. But because lof lack of remembering and proper attention, beings go after it, take birth, age, get sick, seperated, die, again and again, keeping the flame of k

Johann: If ones sacrifices, generosity, isn't protected by a good closed tank, less fruits can be expected. And what is the tank made of? Saddha, Pasada, metta, Sila, intention for own and others independency.

Johann: Nothing more a blessing as to do not cling to a specific Nikaya, since one can easy take the opportunity of doing theUposatha often two days a new. May all always make the best of given possibilities.

Depabhasadhamma: I am in need of assistance. I am writing a paper about the Three Marks of Existence. I understand the three marks, however, I am befuddled by the meaning and use of the word "existence." Is this English word the translation of the Pali word thiti? Does the word "existence" imply life, living, consci

Johann: Temporary ordination is pretty normal, 3 days, a month, a Vassa... and not to forget that the Buddha promised union with the Asparas, which are beyond being compareable to others...

2020 May 09 19:25:54

Moritz: No no, I really prefer to be a householder, even though not having a house at the moment. I am not much inclined towards nekkhamma... ... even though already doing some nekkhamma now, but not hoping to do so for the long term....

As all here might know is that Sila is by far greater that Generosity. And Sila does not heat and burn of the world.

Does anybody has an idea how much storage, hanging on things, costs a year?

Storage of datas in the internet network cost about 3.500$ for 1.000GB a year. That's just storing, without traffic, without search engines... your personal devices.

Now think of how much goes down the cemeteries ... = your suffering.

People always "laugh" when my person tells them that their "free" stuff costs for each person currently 3-5000$ a year (the common googling, face, tweet, mail, uploads, downloads...) and whether they think that the "free-giver", at least vipaka, will not soon knock on the door when hardly addicted. Some think that they already pay for it...

Nobody needs to be a mathematician to be clear that the current way of no Sila and use of "free" will end up in large disasters.

The world produces about 44 trillion gigabytes data a year of which 90% are surely unsorted datas.

It may sound again and again stupid when encouraging to "Anamaya", cleaning up and care about the mass.

A day or week spend only with sorting out emails, deleting datas, especial if stored somewhere else, where others carry it, is much more worth then to crazy try to make merits by generosity or more gain by using more search engines and tool of third parts.

Sila is not only a gift for all bu also the way to wealth and the way toward cool, a cool that heads straight toward Nibbana.

[People] consort and associate [with others] for the sake of selfish advantage. Nowadays friends without selfish motives are hard to find. Men who are wise as to selfish benefits are foul. One should live the religious life as solitarily as a rhinoceros horn.

What does Bhante Varado think? Better to leave a tiny good walked path to the "Ashram in the forest", or build an highway and way signs so that may, of "outstanding people" may get touched?

Less will be there who will in future ever appropriate the work by Bhante, saying "Devadatta", "Mara", gives us tools and means to look up as we like and wish, for free and without limitations. But there are, and they need no search engines to meet up with their Upanissaya, those capable to live simply from generosity and take care even of that others may consider as dirt, knowing the suffering and sacrifices behind it's arising.

My person has seen faithful people offering gifts and had been laugh about the "maras" and "devadattas" - thought they where worthy ones - pointing out that there google and open source stuff works fine for them...